Research
- Challenges of New Media for the Development of Early Literacy Skills in Children at Risk
- The computer program Living Letters is designed to make children aware that letters in written words relate to sounds in spoken words, with their proper names as a starting point
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- Computer interventions for young children at risk to prevent reading impairments
- This study’s main aim is to test whether children’s learning behaviour explains why they do not benefit from a literate environment.
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- The Impact of Name Writing on Early Literacy
- In a series of studies with 3-6 year-olds we test how familiarity with the name adds to basic reading skills.
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- The added value of multimedia to repeated story book reading in preschool age
- Book reading may intensify three-year-old children’s experiences with a rather complex vocabulary and grammar but do they benefit?
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- An Update and Expansion of a Meta-Analysis on Shared Book Reading
- In a series of meta-analyses we test effects of qualitative aspects of bookreading and new forms of story encounters.
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- Becoming Literate by Means of the Internet
- The current study examines experimentally whether regularly visiting book-based programmes on internet sites supports literacy of children just as storybook reading at home or in educational settings and whether younger and older children profit equally.
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- Executive deficits, behavioural problems and early reading development
- This study tests whether behavioral problems at a young age are related to early reading and mathematics development.
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- Development of a academic monitoring system for students with learning problems in secondary school
- Students with learning problems experience difficulties in reading, writing, and content-area learning into and throughout their secondary-school years
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